Announcement 🌸 (2026.05.16)

Good evening!

Thank you very much for opening my blog 🐈‍⬛

I'm Sakurazaka46's Masumoto Kira 🌸

How have you been, now that it's getting a lot warmer recently?☀️

Summer is coming soon, huh

I have welcomed many new seasons

with all of you who I love so much

Though I've been takin it as something for granted,

now I realize that those were irreplaceable moments

I will be graduating from Sakurazaka46

with the end of 15th single activities.

I took the audition at 16 years old, and now I am 24 years old. I grew up on this place and become an adult.

I've been deeply moved so many times

in both Keyakizaka46, Sakurazaka46.

The countless experiences I wouldn't be able to do anywhere else, the emotions I didn't know. They are each something that I will treasure for life.

There are many things that came true through hard work, and there are many things that didn't come true despite working hard for it. I think that this is something that everyone experience in their life. But, it is something that you won't know about until you give it a try

I'm glad that I gave it my best, I have no regrets because I faced it earnestly. I gave it my all.

Every new experience,

you all would say, "Thank you for taking me to such a place",

but it was undoubtedly all of you who led me to that place. Thank you for showing me many different sceneries ☺️

Ever since that Summer where I participated in the audition,

I have met the many people who supported me.

You all used your precious time to see me again and again.

You all support me no matter what happen, and told me that like me no matter what I am.

I lacked confidence and sometimes shook my head at the compliments that I received from everyone, but you all continued to express your love and gratitude without fail.

Thanks to all of you, I have gradually started to think that perhaps I, too, can become the source of light for someone?

I have always lived aimlessly,

so I never imagined that I will be living a life like this.

Truly, thank you very much for meeting me, for discovering me.

You all often say

that you'd like to repay the favor,

but I have received enough.

So much so that if I were to receive any more, I wouldn't be able to pay all of you back.

It'll be my turn in the remaining time 😏

Please let me use this time to express plenty of my gratitude 🌸

I love Sakurazaka46.

This is truly a comforting, precious place.

Not only the members, but the managers, and everyone I involved with at work treats me with love. Kindness that is received from one person is passed to someone else.

I witnessed that cycle of kindness again and again in this place. It is here I learned the warmth of human connection.

This is truly such a wonderful team that I can't imagine there is anywhere else as warm.

I've been so happy to be able to work with all of them.

Leaving such a place feels a bit scary,

but it is a decision that I must make one day. 

Now that I feel I've done everything that I could, please let me make this decision.

This isn't something that I thought in a whim,

but the result I arrived at after much consideration and discussion over a long period of time, so I would be grateful if you could give me your support.

I will continue to give my all in the time remaining!

I want to make it into a fun period. Please continue to support me until the very end 🌸

Masumoto Kira (Kirako)